Carol Cross, 38, was shot and killed on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 10, 1999, in Lewiston, Maine. Trying to leave a 19-year volatile relationship, she had obtained a protection-from-abuse order and returned to the shared home to collect belongings and make sure her three children, ages 16, 8, and 2, would be safe. Two friends and a Lewiston police officer accompanied her.

While the officer was inside the second-floor apartment, the live-in boyfriend, 38-year-old Kenneth Emrick, barricaded himself in a bedroom and fired a .30-06 rifle out a window. The single shot struck Carol in the throat, killing her at the scene; the bullet also wounded one friend, 46-year-old Robert Pelchat, who survived. Emrick then died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in what was classified as a murder-suicide. A memorial bench was later placed at the junction of Leeds, Webster, and Pine streets in Lewiston.

If anyone knew Carol or was present that day and can add details about the events or her life, please share information.